Posted on 06/06/2013 4:56:00 PM PDT by Nachum
The Washington Post has published a remarkable report showing that the National Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have been monitoring the central servers of major Internet companies -- Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube and Apple -- and "extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person’s movements and contacts over time."
Why did a government source leak information of this program, dubbed "PRISM," to the Post? What follows is perhaps the most chilling paragraph I've read to date about U.S. government surveillance:
Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.
In the wake of last night's Guardian report about the NSA's collection of Verizon phone user metadata, the New York Times editorial board argued that the Obama administration "has now lost all credibility" in defending its abuses of executive power. That was before the report about PRISM, which unlike the Verizon metadata, includes surveillance of user content.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Yep. Nothing gets past them. Keeps you on your toes.
So now I know what it is. Brrr!
Anyone know if PRISM is an acronym? What does it stand for?
PRISM = Privacy Reduction Involving Systematic Monitoring
I don't know if your scenario is true or not, but it deserves a response...
and hopefully this carefully timed and orchestrated set of information releases will serve to wake up some independents, some young people, some of the ‘head in the clouds’, ‘ useful idiot’ type of liberals who are not the hard core leftists.
Methinks no one in your theory will "wake up." If you speak to a democRAT/marxist/liberal/socialist (sorry to be redundant), they will tell you know matter if it's domestic, or foreign policy, it's Bush's fault.
Most amazing thing I've ever seen.
5.56mm
Petraeus was invited to the Bilderberg super-duper-spooky- secret meeting this week...interesting.
I agree-I think O is now on the ****list with a lot of spooks and their friends...good/valuable people/agents/soldiers are dead and the MB is in charge—the CIA have been blamed, mocked, outed and lost valuable “assets”—there is an undercurrent at play here and God only knows what’s next...
I just hope the “good guys” win...
Satan, the father of lies, has certainly blinded the eyes and minds of the lost.
I was talking about just the clueless population, not hard core leftests, so I shall try to remain hopeful for that segment of the population to wake up.
NSA geeks and real CIA spooks have never been buds/allies.
They have distrusted each other for at least 5 decades.
That's the point. When your enemy is stabbing each other in the back, add more knives to the battlefield.
Instability in the US is a huge advantage for those who hate us.
IRS targeting conservatives, PRISM sucking up all our info, Petraeus with Bilderberg this week, Romney meeting with Axelrod and Christi in Utah this weekend at economic summit....cats and dogs sleeping together,....world upside down. My head hurts and I don’t think these people live in the same dimension that we do.
“I just checked Steve jobs died on Oct 2012, PRISM got access to Apple on Oct 2012.”
Apple appears to the be last big player to share its user data with MotherNSA.
Maybe Jobs held out and refused to join in the feed frenzy.
So when he departed, Apple decided to be a “contributor.
That's why Obama's called the резидент (that's the Rooskie word for the ranking agent in a country).
“Now, with all that background revealed, the information about the NSA data mining center was seen in the truly frightening context that it should be, and hopefully this carefully timed and orchestrated set of information releases will serve to wake up some independents, some young people, some of the ‘head in the clouds’, ‘ useful idiot’ type of liberals who are not the hard core leftists.”
Lets hope so.
My wife and I were watching Fox News when Shep broke this news and had a discussion with Judge Napi.
Shep went from mild mannered semi Lib to shouting about what an abuse this was. He wondered when the Feds would send someone to live with us and drive with us to monitor what we say and think.
My wife laughed and said he sounds more fired up than we do.
“Don’t be to sure about that Nokia being as dumb as you think”
The phone may have the circuits, even if you can’t use them. Thirty years ago, a colleague surprised us by calculating square roots on his desktop calculator. There was no key for it, but the logic was there. (He hit three keys simultaneously to get the square root, never found out whether it was an accident or just too much time on his hands.)
We had “old” phones (2000) and got newer ones, which we didn’t really like but stuck with for a few years. We finally got sick of the new phones and tried to go back, some time around 2006 or so. The phone company refused for the stated reason, and gave us new ones. By that time “all” phones were trackable, but our fossil ones weren’t. They also claimed that the phones were incompatible with the new service, 3G or whatever it was.
The use of this sort of data in a campaign would give it a tremendous advantage.
I am not sure of the date in Oct. they began to mine for the data, but I will wager my salary it was after Oct 5th.
I heard on the news tonight that the consultants who developed this concept have formed a corporations and will be for hire by political campaigns. They said they would work for “Democrats only.”
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